The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-07
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Mrs. f. NJ IRISH is again seriously i'll.
Mrs. VIOLA Corr is quite i'll with lung
fever.
CHARLES o. ScovILL has been at home for
few days past.
NINA Brown is attending boarding-school
at Danvers, Mass.
G. w. WILDER has returned from busi-
ness trip to Boston.
Mrs. j. S. SPINNEY of Northfeld is visit
ing at o. j. Richardson's.
MPs j. II. BREEN has been very i'll with
diphtheria the past week.
GEORGE E. TApL1N has moved into his
new house on State street.
THERE is to be bean sociable at Christ
church rectory this evening.
GEORGE H. WILDER is expected home on
Friday for a fortnight's vacation.
Mrs j. L. FUTILE returned last week
from her visit to friends in the West.
THE Misses Meinecke and Mrs. Morrill,
have taken rooms at H. II. Deming's.
REV j. o. SHERBURN will preach at
Wrightsville December 18th, at two P. M
THE annual election of officers of Brooks
Relief Corps takes place on Friday evening
next.
T. j. DEAvITT, Esq, will make a trip to
Washington, d. c., in January on pension
business.
CARL, son of II. G. Webster, is suffering
with Bright's disease and accompanying
heart difficulty.
THE Ladies' Aid Society of the Church Of
the Messiah will meet at the vestry next
Monday evening.
n. G. PECK has moved into the Mrs.
Snow house on Barre street, recently va
Gated by 7. T. Ranney.
THE ladies' union prayer-meeting will be
held in the parlor of the Baptist church on
Friday at three o'clock.
THE new cart for Capital Hose, No. 2,
purchased at cost of $50, arrived on Fri
day, and it is a real beauty.
WE were just one week too previous in
the item in our last issue concerning Post
Office Clerk Sloan's visit to Groveton.
a NEW derrick, reported to have cost
81, 900 or thereabouts, has been placed be-
tween the new stone sheds and the railroad
track.
Mr.. AND Mrs. r. II. RANNEY have re-
Gently moved into the lower tenement of
the house owned by Mrs. Goodwin on First
Avenue.
MARGARET daughter of James 7. Sabin,
was assisted by several of her little friends
in celebrating her ninth birthday on Satur-
day last.
THE Ladies' Society of Christ church
will meet at the rectory Friday afternoon,
December 9th, at two o'clock. A full at
tendance is desired
Miss EULIE EATON, A. G. Eaton, ]. G
| Brown, II. NJ. Cutler, A. w. Ferrin and g.
B. Walton went to Burlington Saturday
night to see Ermine."
THE headquarters of the Montpelier Stock
Exchange were removed on Saturday from
the " old Montpelier House to rooms in
Watons building on State street
Mrs. S. S. BALLARD has been at the home
OF her parents in Jeifersonville the past
week having been called thither by the ill
ness of her mother, Mrs. d. G. Griswold.
THE services in the Church of the Mes
siah next Sunday are to be conducted by
Rev Myra Kingsbury. She will give a
brief lecture in the evening on "Life's Para
bles."
JOHN MILLER, postman, has been off duty
the past week with a severe cold, and
Clerks Pierce and Goodenough have at
tended to the distribution of mail upon his
route.
THE school in the Mount Hunger district
Lillian j. Smith, who has been the teacher
for the past term, has returned to her home
in Montpelier.
COMMUNION services were held at the
Church of the Messiah Sunday afternoon,
at which time two persons were added to
the membership of the church. There was
no service in the evening.
AS Louis Barney was driving up Main
street last Saturday night he collided with a
team driven by Waitsfield man named
Bates. Barney was quite badly injured
and his buggy was damaged to some extent.
THE skating upon the Berlin mill-dam,
so-called, was last week the best for several
years. 1t was spoiled by the light snowfall
of Friday night but the thaw of Sunday
and Monday is likely to restore it to some
extent.
Tony DENIER's Humpty-Dumpty -
troupe is due at Blanchard Opera-house Fri
day evening of this week, and lovers of pan
tomine will be afforded an opportunity to
crafty their tastes for this class of entertain
ment. press notice of the company ap-
pears elsewhere. Seats at Longs bookstore
"G S. TURNER, apleasant gentleman aud
a capable business man from Usage City,
Kansas, has been appointed agent at AL
buquerque for the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, He has arrived here
and is making himself acquainted with the
different departments under his control. -
Albuquerque (N. NJ Morning Democrat.
The next band concert and assembly oc-
| ours at the Pavilion next Tuesday evening